Through the design of soundscape installations for three historical museum buildings, we explore how sonic placemaking may be used to reveal intangible cultural heritage. We build on Harrison and Dourish’s distinction between space place, Jordan Lacey’s definition understand sound-scape as a process creating places that support sensory connection be-tween guest space, hereby enabling new experi...

Culture and tourism complement each other coexist prosper together. Historical sites are a combination of scientific, technological, cultural knowledge art, historical also carriers. Tourism survival has become an important model for the protection inheritance sites. In integrated development mode industry industry, can make full use culture in to transform form products enhance taste products....

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This paper reports on the Joaquim Nabuco Project, a pioneering work in Latin America on document digitalization, enhancement, compression, indexing, retrieval and network transmission of historical document images.

We propose a method to extract special objects in images of medieval books, which generally represent, for example, figures and capital letters. Instead of working on the single pixel level, we consider superpixels as the basic classification units for improved time efficiency. More specifically, we classify superpixels into different categories/objects by using a bag-of-features (BoF) approach...

On behalf of the entire Organization Committee, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Twelth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2014), sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and the Scientific Associations for Infocommunications Hungary (HTE). The Procee...

The National Taiwan University Library has built a digital library of historical documents about Taiwan. The content is unique in that it covers about 80% of all primary Chinese historical materials about Taiwan before 1895, and that they are all available in searchable full text, in addition to metadata. To make these materials more accessible to the research community, we have developed, in a...